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Monday, August 05, 2013

Latest Lefty Rewriting of History: During World War II, "Sex become a way to assert American domination" over France

Just
when you thought that World War II was fought by the greatest
generation comes a book accusing the American army of racism, of
harboring innumerable rapists, of bombing French cities with no just
cause, and of being "guests [in France] who have overstayed their
welcome", thus meaning the US presence "was not just an experience of
liberation." (Oh, and while we're at it, Times Square's VJ-Day Kissing Sailor Turns Out to Be a "Sexual Predator".)

Nothing about the fact that these young
men are going into combat, that soldiers everywhere are hungry for the
company of women (whether in their own country or on a foreign base),
the unfortunate but necessary options that must considered be to wage
and to win battles, and what kind of country France would be in had the
status quo (continued occupation by a different kind of army, the Nazi
one) continued.

No matter. Of course, What Soldiers Do (Sex and the American GI in World War II France) is a World War II book that Le Monde must review, by all means, indeed that it must devote a full-page article to, and so it sends Washington correspondent Corine Lesnes to interview the author.

It
turns out that Mary Louise Roberts started the book right after the
beginning of the Gulf War and, thus, the slightly skeptical citizen (American or foreign) is forced to wonder whether it
isn't really but the latet full-blown attack on America and on American history.

"Sex become a a
manner of assuring American domination over a secondary power", says the
University of Wisconsin professor. "I wish the United States would be
less arrogant vis-à-vis France." And the French are correct not to be
grateful to Uncle Sam.